{"id":26095,"date":"2019-07-07T14:35:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T21:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=26095"},"modified":"2019-07-07T14:35:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T21:35:18","slug":"brake-for-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/brake-for-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Beep, Beep &#8211; I Brake for Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/artbreak.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/art\/bill-anderson-exhibit.html\">artist friends who own galleries<\/a>, you&#8217;re used to applying the brakes and stopping to see them when you pass by and notice they&#8217;re waving &#8220;hi.&#8221; \u00a0But braking for art takes on a unique and very real meaning at the Sebastopol Street Printing Festival where a\u00a0 three-ton machine (pictured) used to even pavements and roads makes prints from hand-cut linoleum blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Art comes in many forms &#8212; you&#8217;ll typically find musicians, actors and writers calling themselves artists. At Laguna Beach&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/laguna-beach-pageant-masters.html\"> Pageant of the Masters<\/a>\u00a0(left photo,) amateur actors step into paintings to create a stage show or pageant.<\/p>\n<p>If you counted all the crafters, makers and gift vendors at farmers&#8217; markets and street fairs in California, then you&#8217;re looking at thousands of events that can be considered art festivals, of sorts.<\/p>\n<p>The trend in art festivals is not far off from that concept as event producers have discovered that people tend to buy more items when they&#8217;re fed and given some drinks. Add musical entertainment, and you have a complete package that combines art into a bigger celebration which may include wine, beer, cocktails, music, food, or whatever. The majority of art festivals in California include music, food and drinks.<\/p>\n<p>With July in full swing, there are lots and lots of great art festivals to see.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/july-arts.html\">July Art Festivals<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>EL MONTE: Chalk it Up July 12, 2019<\/p>\n<p>REDWOOD CITY: Summer Art on the Square July 12<\/p>\n<p>PALO ALTO: Palo Alto Clay and Glass Festival July 13-14<\/p>\n<p>OLYMPIC VALLEY: Squaw Valley Art, Wine and Music Festival July 13-14<\/p>\n<p>LOS ALTOS: Arts and Wine Festival July 13-14<\/p>\n<p>OXNARD: Channel Islands Harbor Art Fest July 13-14<\/p>\n<p>SOUTH LAKE TAHOE: Summer Arts and Craft Show July 12-14<\/p>\n<p>CARSON: Original Rubber Stamp Convention July 13<\/p>\n<p>RIO DEL: Arts on the Avenue July 13<\/p>\n<p>PLACENTIA: Craft Fair July 13<\/p>\n<p>SEBASTOPOL: Street Printing Festival July 14<\/p>\n<p>LAGUNA BEACH: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/art\/laguna-beach-art-afair.html\">Art A-Fair Art Festival<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/art\/laguna-beach-sawdust-festival.html\">Sawdust Festival<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PETALUMA: Art and Garden Festival\u00a0July 14<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you have artist friends who own galleries, you&#8217;re used to applying the brakes and stopping to see them when you pass by and notice they&#8217;re waving &#8220;hi.&#8221; \u00a0But braking for art takes on a unique and very real meaning at the Sebastopol Street Printing Festival where a\u00a0 three-ton machine (pictured) used to even pavements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26095"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26096,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26095\/revisions\/26096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}